Art and Work: A Social History of Labour in the Canadian Graphic Arts Industry to the 1940s (Volume 8) - Hardcover

Davis, Angela E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0773512802 ISBN 13: 9780773512801

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1994

Synopsis

Beginning with the origins of the graphic arts industry in Britain, Angela Davis describes the development of technology, commercial organization, and professionalization of artists in Canada. She focuses on the artists involved in the creation and reproduction of a "popular" art form. The evolution of commercial illustration and the graphic arts industry, Davis asserts, had a dramatic impact not only on the popular press and advertising but also on illustrators, engravers, photo-engravers, and lithographers, who still considered themselves to be artists but found that they were now working in an industrial atmosphere similar to that of other workers. Art and Work reveals that the foundations of Canadian art and popular culture rest not only on the European traditions of "fine" art but also on the commercial art produced in the early graphic arts houses.

About this title

About the Author:

Angela Davis was an assistant professor in the Department of History at St John's College, University of Manitoba.

Review:

"Well argued, well researched, and well written, Art and Work adds to the growing corpus of work that looks at art as a social product, an important medium of communication, and an agent of consciousness-forming." Brian Osborne, Department of Geography, Queen's University.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0773512802
• ISBN 13: 9780773512801
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208